BRITAIN: Vindication for Jeremy Thorpe

The "trial of the century "ends in his
acquittal ill the foreman please stand," said an official of the court.
A gray-haired woman, dressed in a blue suit, rose to her feet. "What
say you?" inquired the official, reading the first charge, conspiracy
to murder. "Not guilty," she replied. There was a stir in Courtroom No.
1 of London's Old Bailey that was immediately hushed by cries of
"Silence!" The official continued by asking the verdict for all four
defendants. Each time the reply was "Not guilty." Then the official
asked for...